Skip and Shed

67021 with the Birch Coppice - Bescot return trip passing Streetly Gate foot crossing.

66089 running light from Bescot passes the Streetly Wood foot crossing, probably en route Washwood Heath.

Cotswold Rail 47

No.47828 "Joe Strummer", running light through Aldridge in drizzly weather, bound for Oxley Carriage Shed...

Golden Brown

60041 with an eastbound train of empty ballast wagons, and a while later 60021 with the Walsall-bound cement train passing 67020 running light to Birch Coppice. Both pictured at Sutton Park...

Freightliner First

Freightliner's first GM loco 66501 "Japan 2001" pictured passing the 44 milepost near the Aldridge Quarry with 4M55 Southampton-Crewe.

Arch Art

Fragonset-Merlin black liveried "Brush" loco 47712 ARTEMIS runs light past Aldridge 03.07.06, possibly en route Derby...

Stock move

Having worked last weeks Tote-Sport organised Raceday specials From New St to Cheltenham, West Coast Railway loco's 57601+47826 in top-and-tail formation blast along the Sutton Park line with stock en route Tyseley-Carnforth. A swirling snowstorm had only just finished when the train passed...

Panther on the prowl

Departmental Tamper DR 73906 "Panther" runs through a sudden snowstorm at Streetly foot crossing.

Snow and Sun

The Sallow spring catkins are out but there's snow on the ground as 67020 powers past the Park Lime Pits on the Bescot-Birch Coppice working, 6G36.

5690 Leander at night

...waiting for the off at Walsall Station on a returning charter train for Tyseley.

Winding through Rushall

... on it's way back to Bescot is today's return Birch Coppice working with a substantial train of 15 wagons behind EWS loco 67020.

Up stone

EWS loco 66004 with an up train of stone/ballast passing bridge 41 at Sutton Park today.

Unusual DRS working

DRS loco 37087 worked a Doncaster - Bescot freight this afternoon, some sort of rail-unloader wagons I think. Here it is passing Aldridge with just enough daylight left.

Renegades off to Rutland !

Pictured from the train, DRS Type 1 loco's 20306 + 20309 + 20314 take the sharp right curve just after Ryecroft Jn and head out over the 'Park on Pathfinder's "Rutland Renegade" freight-lines tour of 26th August 2006.

Scattering the Pigeons

66084 rolls down the incline towards Sutton Park old station with a very light load of two wagons from Crewe, destined Croft. These days the freight wagons are likely to be of more interest than the motive power on the front, especially as in this case when one of the much-despised Canadian-built "GM-crop" class 66 "corrugated shed" loco's is at the head of the train, painted in the incredibly drab EWS maroon/yellow.

Blogger Slogger

66075 slogs up the incline from Sutton Park with a heavy coal train for Rugeley Power Station.

Going South

The "Grain Train" blasting across the 'Park with 56302 at the helm.

Bunnicula

These characters infest the Sutton Park NNR... pictured here on the railway embankment near Darnel Hurst.

Coal Empties

Freightliner HeavyHaul loco 66511 heads out across the straight 2 mile section of the 'Park with coal empties.

67014

Regular "Skip" loco 67014 on a short train (2 wagons!) of intermodal traffic for Bescot, at Sutton Park.

Contraptions across the 'Park

Showing, variously, two Tampers trundling through the woods, and a train of unusual concrete sleeper wagons with auto-unloaders behind loco 66223.

At Streetly Gate

loco 56303 powers up the incline across Sutton Park this afternoon with liner 4O90 for Grain terminal.

Duke of Gloucester 71000

By far the most impressive engine i ever saw on the Sutton Park line was the unique restored 3-cylinder 8P 4-6-2 71000 Duke of Gloucester heading the "Welsh Marches Express" from Bescot to Bristol on 28th May 2005. The loco came thundering up the bank from Ryecroft in charge of thirteen packed coaches at a rate that seemed dramatically in excess of the 45mph linespeed along here ! Once a rusting inhabitant of Barry scrapyard the loco has been transformed into an awesome monster ! Enclosed 3 shaky video edits...

National Grid

Jarvis "Grid" loco 56302 under the pylons at the quarry near Aldridge, June 2006.